St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-07
LITTLE And Big TRASH.
LILLE AMI blG lRhSH.
Sam Small Returns to His Attack Upon
the Stars i'll the Business of Enter.
tanning the Public.
He Can't See the Neral Difference Be-
tween Paying SO and 10 Cents to
Theatrical Performances.
.et
The Difference Between Cap,,..at iafid
Labor Might be Settled by the II
Light of Christ. lsI.a
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His Evening Sermon on Libertyi 1.-THE
Liberty Which is Proclaimed h
Through Jesus Christ. W


Liberty Which is Proclaimed h
Through Jesus Christ. {, g ND ~
A large audience greeted Sam Small
at the Hennepin Avenue M. f.. church
yesterday morning. Before beginning
his address Mr.. Small read telegram
from Sam Jones announcing his safe re-
turn home and the improved condition.
of Mrs, Jones. Mr.. Small took for MS
text: Il Am the Light of the WorId,P
ut is a pleasant thing" said he, ito
know that Christ did not leave this for
someone else to say. This light is Hood
ing the world, but some people prefer to
hive in darkness. The merchants who
make assignments, who give short
weight. and who do various other things.
have never come into this light. and now
people are wondering how the world
can be made honest again. Things have
come to frightful state when man
must lie dishonest in order to be sue
eesSful. We also need light in
the social world In the darkness
which prevails, the devil has come i'm
and introduced progressive euchre and
the like into your homes. He has re-
fined dancing schools until you send
your daughters there to be made grace
full. Better send them out into the back
yard to carry water. 1t isrbetter to have
them do this than to be near those dew
lis of dancing masters. The theater
has also been refined until you will pay
50 to see big lot of thrash rather than
pay 10 cents and see the little trash.
All the trouble between capital and la
Dor would be settled in fifteen minutes
If this great light of Christ could ONLY
be brought to bear upon them. 1t is the
true Christian who is always throwing
out kind deeds and little rays of light,
and it is
THE HYPOCRITES
VINO are cold, careless and uncharitable,
Why do you not seek this true light?
Are you afraid your companions will
laugh at you? Don't think you cannot
be saved unless all your companions
are, for you can. | thought as YOU did
once, but now that is all changed Sew
eral went to the altar during the service
that followed. Sam Small said at the
evening service:
ask your attention while l endeavor to
talk with You friendly if / can from the III
Epistlc of st. Peter, IT,, 10, while they prom
wants of corruption, for of whom man is
overcome, of the same is he brought in bond
age We have had good deal to say about
liberty, and liberty is a great theme with us
pSOplc Will tliOSe Ol us VINO enjoy
it in this country, and it is great boon to
humanity. 1t is not necessary that stand
here tonight and pronounce eulogies upon
The blessings and privileges and power of
your attention with repetition of what has
been said on the subject of liberty But re-
call your attention simply TO this fact that
this has been impressed upon you, and that
you know tonight there are two conditions
in spiritual world in the mortal world,
that correspond to conditions of liberty and
bondage or slavery in the physical world and
Ill human government. call your attention
to another fact, that of whom man is
brought into servitude of whom a man is
overcome of him and to him he is brought
into bondage. | call your attention to an
other fact and that is that the only liberty
that men are seeking after, and seeking after
with all diligence, and under all copsidera-
tons, in all places and under all condi-
tons Of IN
HUMAN SUFFERING u IA
or human joy. the only liberty that perpetual
and complete. and that brings the Greatest
joy and eternal life to the soul, is thef1beriy
which is proclaimed through Jesus Christ.
for on whom the son maketh free, is free i'm
deed, and the bondage which all men gte
under to flee. A bondage which, when II
becomes perpetual, is a bondage of cihntiinlgs
chains and unutterahle horror TO hell is tRe
bondage Of sin and of corruption. andiof cxil
and the devil. There is one great libeFator in
the world-Jesus Christ. There is one great
III.
and no man can serve two masters. He will
either love the one and hate the other. or
he will cleaye to one and depose the
other. And tonight thereN is not
an individual here, there is not an indiyid-
ual in Minneapolis. there is not an individual
in this world tonight living and breathing
who has not the mastership of one or the
other of these great head centers and repre-
sentatlves. say 10 yen, are you a Christian?
No, am not Christian. Are you a servant
of the devil? You say no. But that is a lie
You say, what right have you to call me q
liar? say because Christ said so. And
when Jesus Christ says thing it is so. s.Ue
that is not for me is against me; and he that
gathereth with me, scattereth Abroad AS
we have said before. you may be neutral to
many questions that are, you are either for
Christ or against Him. You are either free
man or bondsman. You are either in the
glorious liberty Of the gospel or you are in
the bondage of sin and laboring
LIKE SLAVE
under the law of sin and DEATH There are
thousands of men, thousands of followers
and .propagators of PHILOSOPHERS livingin the
world to-day of whom that passage have
read was penned. While they promise you
liberty, while they promise mankind liberty,
while they promise every man to whom they
can converse with their seductive doctrines
of liberty. they are themselves the servants
of corruption. they are the recruiting officers
of the devil, they are the emigrant agents of
hell. AS man says: II am not
ready to surrender my personal liberty
in order to become q Christian. Well saw
where is your personal liberty involved in
the question at all? Where does your Chris
Well, he says you Methodists have got up a
scheme now by which you kick a fellow
out of the church if he gets drunk.
Thank God the old Methodist church have
written in their decipline that men who are
drunkards shall not be carried upon
her roll. But in a great
many instances that is the only place ] find
that the law is in the discipline. / wish we
could have regular old gullywashng time
through the Methodist church of this coun-
try that would wash all the drunkards out of
the Church lCries of amen.] We need and
need 1t bad. And we either ought to put
them out or we ought to wipe that portion of
our discipline out We ought TO be
ASHAMED OF OURSELVES
to write any of the laws of our church that
we are too cowardly to enforce. We get I'D
TO our pulpits and abuse the officers of a
city, state, or officers of nations for having
laws on the statute books that they will not
enforce; and say whenever ysu get law in
the statute book that you will not enforce.
you have got anarchy beginning; and when
ever you get law written on the statute
book of Christ that you will not enforce. you
have got anarchy beginning in the
church. What has your personal liberty got
to do with the liquor question. Youysay /
have right to take drink if / want to, YolI
have got right TO take drink; so have I
l have got just as much right to take one us
you have. Whatever you are in the church
or out of it. In the sight of God tonight il
have got as much right to take drink aS you
have have got as much right to go fstrag-
as you have. / have as much IeTient
to gamble at the faro 9tahle
rs You have. have got as much right TO do
anything immoral or sinful as you have
But somebody has put the corruption of the
devil into your head that because you are out
of the church you have got patent right To